chris christie and at the very last minute the romney campaign does this crash vetting of christie and ultimately conclude that the pay-to-play restrictions in jersey what governors can and can't raise and because of the unanswered questions about christi's background they can't make that pick. the book by john heilemann and mark halpern has this campaign memo from the romney campaign vetters quoted at length here are the unanswered questions we don't know about chris christie. if we pick him after the fact, we should figure out about a, b, c, d, and e. i think in the end there were so many questions about him. ryan was seen as a safer pick. >> also, jonathan, there is information about where harry reid got that idea that mitt romney hadn't paid taxes for ten years. >> your viewers will recall last year or last summer, actually, harry reid was having great fun for a long time floating this notion with no evidence, by the way, that mitt romney hadn't paid taxes in ten years. turns out it was john huntsman senior, the father of one of romney's rivals from the primary and they are both lo